Timeline for Should one attack hard problems?
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| Mar 11, 2013 at 11:11 | comment | added | user22882 | Yes, but he started to work at the problem when it became known that there was a connection. At this point he knew that he had an approach that earlier researchers had not. | |
| Mar 11, 2013 at 10:04 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | @Markus: IIRC Wiles was not the originator of the connction between elliptic curves/modular forms and FLT | |
| Feb 27, 2013 at 13:18 | comment | added | user22882 | @Frank: But you can often see that a method is new. Examples are Andrew Wiles' use of elliptic curves for Fermat's problem or Heinrich Heesch's idea of using computers to attack the Four Colour Problem. | |
| Feb 27, 2013 at 13:02 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by S. Carnahan♦ | ||
| Feb 27, 2013 at 11:04 | comment | added | user10891 | Problem is that often failed attempts don't get published thus its hard to say what has been tried without success. | |
| Feb 27, 2013 at 10:52 | comment | added | Francesco Polizzi | "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working." P. Picasso :-) | |
| Feb 27, 2013 at 10:00 | history | answered | user22882 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |